Basketball and philosophy: thinking outside the paint

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Tip-off : hoops, pop culture, and philosophy -- First quarter : baseline values, enduring lessons -- Building communities one gym at a time : communitarianism and the decline of small-town basketball / Stephen H. Webb -- To hack or not to hack? (the big) Aristotle, excellence, and moral decision-making / Thomas D. Kennedy -- Basketball purists : blind sentimentalists or insightful critics? / R. Scott Kretchmar -- Hardwood dojos : what basketball can teach us about character and success / Gregory Bassham and Mark Hamilton -- What would Machiavelli do? Confronting the strategic cheater in pickup basketball / Regan Lance Reitsma -- Basketball, violence, forgiveness, and healing / Luke Witte -- The breaks of the game : luck and fairness in basketball / Scott A. Davison -- The beauty of the game / Peg Brand and Myles Brand -- Second quarter : prime-time players, coaches, and sages -- The Zen master and the big Aristotle : cultivating a philosopher in the low post / Fritz Allhoff and Anand J. Vaidya -- Wilt versus Russell : excellence on the hardwood / David K. O'Connor -- The wizard versus the general : why Bob Knight is a greater coach than John Wooden / Jerry L. Walls -- Third quarter : shooting from the perimeter -- The dao of hoops / Dirk Dunbar -- Hoop dreams, blacktop realities : basketball's role in the social construction of black manhood / Bernard Jackson Jr. -- She got game : basketball and the perfectly developed woman / Deborah A. Wallace and James M. Wallace -- Fourth quarter : metaphysical madness -- Shooting with confidence / Kevin Kinghorn -- The hot hand in basketball : illusion or reality? / Steven D. Hales -- Philosophers can't jump : reflections on living time and space in basketball / Tim Elcombe -- Playing for the same team again / Matthew H. Slater and Achille C. Varzi -- Plato and Aristotle on the role of soul in taking the rock to the hole / Daniel B. Gallagher -- The basket that never was / Thomas P. Flint -- Hoosiers and the meaning of life / Michael L. Peterson -- The lineup.;A collection of essays explores the ways basketball evokes a multitude of philosophical issues and questions.